On the eve of her wedding, a young queen sets out to rescue a princess from an enchantment. She casts aside her fine wedding clothes, takes her chain mail and her sword and follows her brave dwarf retainers into the tunnels under the mountain towards the sleeping kingdom. The queen will decide her own future – and the princess who needs rescuing is not quite what she seems. This physically sumptuous book doesn’t open with those words, but it doesn’t need to. It immediately has the welcoming familiarity of folklore and the rhythm of myth. But that is sharpened by twists of tangled thorns, and frissons of melancholy and menace. It is eternal, but fresh. Entrancing, and new. A brand new BBC Radio adaptation of Neil Gaiman's award-winning fairytale, merging Snow White and Sleeping Beauty to enchanting effect Gaiman was the creator/writer of monthly cult DC Comics horror-weird series, Sandman, which won nine Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards. Norman Mailer said of Sandman: "Along with all else, Sandman is a comic strip for intellectuals, and I say it's about time." On the eve of her wedding, a young queen sets out to rescue a princess from an enchantment. She casts aside her fine wedding clothes, takes her chain mail and her sword and ventures into the tunnels under the mountain towards the sleeping kingdom. This queen will decide her own future – and the princess who needs rescuing is not quite what she seems.

The Sleeper and the Spindle: WINNER OF THE CILIP KATE

While I generally fall into the “idiot overzealous fangirl” side of the spectrum when it comes to Gaiman, this one wasn’t quite as good as Snow, Glass, Apples so it hovered around the 3.5 mark. I’m rounding up, however, because there was a little more to the story than met the eye that left Mitchell and I looking something like this . . . . El giro que le da a las historias de Blancanieves y La Bella Durmiente son muy interesantes y me pillaron por sorpresa, pues no es hasta el final que entiendes lo que verdaderamente está pasando. Igualmente, se me hizo corto, y entiendo que es una historia corta, pero el final se me hizo muy repentino.Enormous peaks of mountains separate the kingdoms of Dorimar and kanselaire. Kanelaire is rowdy as the wedding of their queen approaches. But Dormiar is silent as it mourns the spell that has put its princess to sleep. Words we love to hear and, a generation later, read aloud. Snuggled in a comfy chair, adult wrapping child in loving arms, sharing the journey through enchanted worlds. Adaptation Species Change: In the original fairy tale, Snow White's stepmother was a human witch. In this version it's revealed that the stepmother was actually one of the Folk, which was why she was able to curse Snow. I liked the way the illustrator drew the pictures with no colours, but included tints. I liked the cross-hatching instead of bright neat colours, the illustrator had used some incredible drawing skills. I admired how the author thought about the inscrutable, magical and deep forest. Furthermore, I think the characters are stunning and amazing, and the queen was able to save the sleeper and travel through all of those terribly sharp thorns that tried to get in her way. A solid, creative partnership should function in this way. Text and image shouldn’t repeat each other, but reinforce and enhance the other. The same goes for co-authoring a book. Each author shouldn’t repeat the same information. Instead they should expand on the characters, plot, or subjects being covered and offer a new unique perspective or a continuation of the story. If you are working with someone else to make a book, make sure you are focused on the creation and end product, not competing with your co-creator. Even if you have disagreements, the finished book should be cohesive and not hint at those differences of opinion.

The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman - review

A thrillingly reimagined fairy tale from the truly magical combination of author Neil Gaiman and illustrator Chris Riddell - weaving together a sort-of Snow White and an almost Sleeping Beauty with a thread of dark magic, which will hold readers spellbound from start to finish. I like that he made the queen a badass, but more than that, I liked that she was the one who kissed the sleeping princess without it turning into some sort of crappy, jerk-off lesbian fantasy material. I really wanted to see that build/emotional development and the was absolutely nothing. Hugely disappointed.A thrillingly reimagined fairy tale from the truly magical combination of author Neil Gaiman and illustrator Chris Riddell – weaving together a sort-of Snow White and an almost Sleeping Beauty with a thread of dark magic, which will hold readers spellbound from start to finish. On the eve of her wedding, a young queen sets out to rescue a princess from an enchantment. She casts aside her fine wedding clothes, takes her chain mail and her sword and follows her brave dwarf retainers into the tunnels under the mountain towards the sleeping kingdom. This queen will decide her own future – and the princess who needs rescuing is not quite what she seems. Twisting together the familiar and the new, this perfectly delicious, captivating and darkly funny tale shows its creators at the peak of their talents. The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman – eBook Details Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-beta-20210815 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA400782 Openlibrary_edition

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Usually a man is saving the day, saving the princess or town from DANGER. No, not this story. In fact, there is very little talk about men, besides the three dwarfs. In this story as you read you find that there was a spell cast on this small town, because of Sleeping Beauty. The people as well as the sleeping beauty have been asleep for some time now. Many have tried to save them, but all have failed. It has too many lines like this: But the path to her death, heartbeat by heartbeat, would be inevitable. or this: It would be the end of her life, she decided, if life was a time of choices. which (of course) made everything ridiculously and overwhelmingly dramatic... which is one sure way to take me out of the story. Adaptational Badass: Snow White in her original story was The Ingenue and a naive teenager with no survival skills. It's unclear if in this story she was always like that but by the time she sets off to prevent an enchanted sleep, she arms herself with a chainmail and sword. Warning poster, diary entry, dialogue, estate agent’s description, character description, missing narrative Main Outcome:

Penelope Wilton, Gwendoline Christie, Ralph Ineson and Neil Gaiman himself are among the star cast in this captivating fable of love, loss, hope and destiny.